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Hi there!  It’s been a while since I posted, so there is tons to update.  We’ll start with tonight!  We made Great Grandma D’s favorite cookies tonight.  Grandpa, Mommy and Avery had a blast making cookies.  Avery got to pour the dry ingredients into the mixer and he also got to help mold them into balls and roll them in cinnamon.  Impressive that he only ate one ball of dough.  I guess I should have told him not to eat it BEFORE I gave it to him to roll into a ball.  I suppose hind-sight is 20/20.  We were making snicker-doodles (or if you are Avery “sickernoodles”).  He had tons of fun!  We got to make cookies because he ate his dinner so well.  He ate all his zucchini, most of his asparagus and all of his orzo.  Such a good boy (how’s that for making you sick Jessie?!).

Avery is talking a mile-a-minute and getting extremely good at it.  You can understand most of what he says and if he has an audience, he’s a total ham.  He will do ANYthing for a laugh.  He sings songs (Life is a highway, Chain Gang, and Route 66 are his favorites right now). 

Todd and I are trying to buy a house right now as some of you already know.  We had an appointment yesterday with our agent to give him our list of repairs that need to be made after having the inspection last week.  We expect to hear back from them on Wednesday by noon.  So we need everyone to keep their fingers crossed and pray for us…  It’s a nice spacious house.  Two bedrooms and one bath, full basement, finish-able attic and a large deck on the back.  The house has a HUGE yard…I’m talkin’ HUGE.  The lot size is 49.5 by 285!  Huge!!!!  While I can never thank my parents enough for what they have done for us for the past eight months (not to mention the 29 years and 4 months before that), I’m sure they are going to be happy to get there house back.  We are going to miss them terribly, but we will still be less than 2 miles away from them if we get this house.

Fun with Grandpa helping rake leaves

He’s really proud of himself when he uses a spoon “like Ben dooos” (like Ben does)

My big boy using his spoon

He got to take rides back to the woods to dump the leaves

More fun with leaves

Built a train behind Grandma while I was working on Aunt Kaite’s cake. I looked out the window and couldn’t pass up that picture

Another one of the cake

Avery likes his feet

The cake I made for Aunt Katie’s birthday

Avery really likes the new house

Finger lickin’ good!!

Mommy helping Avery form dough into a ball

Grandpa helping Avery make dough into a ball…look at that concentration

Say cheese

“Now we roll it in the sugar

“Really?? I can eat it now?”

“Aaahhhh…that’s fantastic!”

This is how you pose for a ‘eating the cookie’ shot

By the way, Aunt Katie’s cake was my first tiered cake.  I had tons of fun making it for her.  I also think it just screamed Katie!  I will keep everyone updated on the status of our house.  If anyone wants to help us paint if we get it, let me know!

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